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Gingerbread Addition Mats

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With Christmas just around the corner, it’s been fun brainstorming and prepping some hands on holiday activities and centers like these Gingerbread Addition Mats. Use them with real gumdrops (yum!) or even use play dough, unifix cubes, or fun Christmas erasers as counters. No matter how you play, these are a great activity for building addition skills within 10.

*Pair with our Gingerbread Centers & Activities for Pre-K/Kindergarten

These free gingerbread addition mats are a fun way to work on addition to 10 with kindergarteners! They make a perfect Christmas math center!

Gingerbread Addition Mats

These gingerbread addition mats are the perfect addition to my math centers and preparation for this activity is so simple! The kids will love it!

To get these gingerbread mats ready, I printed them out on cardstock and laminated them. This way I can use them with a dry erase marker over and over again.

How to Play

I decided to play with real gumdrops. I recommend giving each kid their own cup of gumdrops to play with. They can play and then eat them!

Or, you can have a designated bowl of gumdrops NOT for eating. I find that most kids will respect that rule because they don’t want to lose the privilege of playing the game.

These free gingerbread addition mats are a fun way to work on addition to 10 with kindergarteners! They make a perfect Christmas math center!

I used two separate colors of gumdrops to build equations. This gives a good visual for kids that two separate sets are being combined to form a new total.

First we had 2+3. We put out 2 red gumdrops and 3 green gumdrops.

How many gumdrops in all? We have 5! So we wrote 5 in the box with our dry erase marker.

We then cleared off our card and grabbed another to solve!

RELATED RESOURCE: Clothespin Clip Cards – December

These free gingerbread addition mats are a fun way to work on addition to 10 with kindergarteners! They make a perfect Christmas math center!

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More Gingerbread Fun

Be sure to check out these 20 awesome gingerbread activities for kids from some of my favorite kid bloggers too!

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Decorate a Gingerbread Man Art Activity // Mom Inspired Life

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Gingerbread Coverall Games // Recipe for Teaching

Gingerbread Man Counting Cards // Sara J Creations

Gingerbread Pre-Writing Strips // The Kindergarten Connection

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Gingerbread 2D Shape Match and Count // Liz’s Early Learning Spot

Gingerbread Play Dough// Play and Learn Everyday

Gingerbread House Building STEM // Science Kiddo

Gingerbread Ten Frame Counting Mats // Modern Preschool

Gingerbread Man Busy Box // Teach Me Mommy

Gingerbread Man Sight Word Game // Playdough to Plato

Gingerbread Man Stamping // Simple Play Ideas

Gingerbread Number Line Addition to 12 // Fairy Poppins

Gingerbread Man Addition Cork Board Game // Adventures of Adam

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Alex is a Transitional Kindergarten teacher with a passion for making learning fun and engaging. She's earned a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education, and Masters Degrees in Special Education and Curriculum Design. Alex is a former night owl turned early bird and playful learning enthusiast. Alex lives with her husband and their beloved and high-energy cat, Fitz.
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